If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication. — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Middle Age, a restful, welcome break from real life, brings some unique opportunities. — Marilyn Suzanne Miller Copy Share Image
“His was a lonely, unorthodox conviction that war was man's ultimate failure.” — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
'Simeon's Gift' is really - it's about a musician who - in the Middle Ages, who goes out to find his muse. — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing. — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades. — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
The Egyptians had the locusts and in the Middle Ages there was the Black Death with the rats, but tourists are the… — Richard Conniff Copy Share Image
Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I know the present only through the television screen, whereas I have direct knowledge of the Middle Ages.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Cryptology served magical purposes frequently throughout the Middle Ages, and even in the Renaissance was still disguising important parts of alchemical formulas.” — David Kahn Copy Share Image
For though we are perpetually bragging of it as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The scientific-rational mindset is as much a cosmology as the Catholic mindset was in the Middle Ages; scientists are so proud of… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
We reserve the term 'genius' for people who are creative, who are innovators, who think in ways that are entirely new. In… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memory—childhood, adolescence,… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“The mass of the population before the modern era rarely ate meat as the mass of the peasantry rarely do in underdeveloped… — Malcolm Hamilton Copy Share Image
The reason the middle section switches to third person is, well, this is middle age. This is the part in her life… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
Here's flowers for you; Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun And with him rises… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“This is an instance of the truism that, when switching from one recording medium to another, there is always a considerable data… — Sara Ayad Copy Share Image
My doctor told me that I really should lose some weight. "You're mildly obese," he said. And I thought, "Well, who couldn't… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children,… — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
“Its All About Choice - The way we see things is affected by what we know or what we believe. In the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, their [evolutionists] unproven theories will continue to be accepted by the learned and the illiterate alike as absolute truth, and will… — Alfred M. Rehwinkel Copy Share Image
Hiking - I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“The great quantity of pepper used here was common in medieval meat preparations, where a protein was crusted in expensive spices—including “sweet”… — Sarah Lohman Copy Share Image
“Terrorists are like a fly that tries to destroy a china shop. The fly is so weak that it cannot budge even… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Now the code of life of the High Middle Ages said something entirely opposite to this: that it was precisely lack of… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
“The hour between dog and wolf, that is, dusk, when the two can’t be distinguished from each other, suggests a lot of… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
I am too old to fawn upon a nurse, Too far in years to be a pupil now. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
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